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Civil law. One which in honor and conscience binds the person who has contracted it, but which cannot be enforced in a court of justice. … [Read more...] about NATURAL OBLIGATION

In old records. A native place. Cowell. … [Read more...] about NATIO

The juristic meaning of this term does not differ from the vernacular, except in the cases where it is used in opposition to the term "legal;" and then it means proceeding from or determined by physical causes or conditions, as distinguished from positive enactments of law, or attributable to the nature of man rather than to the commands of law, or based upon moral rather than … [Read more...] about NATURAL

A living, breathing human being, as opposed to a legal entity such as a corporation. Different rules and protections apply to natural persons and corporations, such as the Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination, which applies only to natural persons. … [Read more...] about NATURAL PERSON

A people, or aggregation of men, existing in the form of an organized jural society, inhabiting a distinct portion of the earth, speaking the same language, using the same'customs, possessing historic continuity, and distinguished from other like groups by their racial origins and characteristics, and generally, but not necessarily, living under the same government and … [Read more...] about NATION